The Burden of Democracy - The Claims of Cultures and Pubic Culture

Informationen zum Autor By Geneviève Souillac Klappentext In The Burden of Democracy: The Claims of Cultures and Public Culture, Geneviève Souillac offers an original contribution to the debate on contemporary democratic ethics and vindicates the universal development of democracy. This book argues that a public culture articulated around the three principles of deliberative justice, history and encounter can deepen inclusion, mediation, and democratic pluralism under conditions of postmodernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I: Justice Chapter 1: The Burden of Difference: Pluralist Justice and the Public Sphere Chapter 2: Moral Conversations and Democratic Hermeneutics Chapter 3: Particularism versus Universalism: A False Debate? Part II: Memory Chapter 4: Secularism, Culture, and Critique Chapter 5: Laicité and the Memory of Public Culture Chapter 6: The Ties that Bind: Public Culture and the Debt to the PastPart III: Encounter Chapter 7: Normative Solidarity and Public Hermeneutics Chapter 8: From Intersubjectivity to Encounter Chapter 9: Exit of Religion, Debt of MeaningConclusion

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• Authors: Genevi Souillac, Genevieve Souillac, Geneviève Souillac
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2011
• EAN: 9780739126295
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2629-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Nationalism, Political structures: democracy, Political Science;Political Theory